Healthy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Today we are making awfully healthy oatmeal raisin cookies!

stirring up the almost non-existent butter and whole wheat flour batch

placing it on a pizza pan since I have no cookie trays...

Ta-da! They do taste pretty good even without too much sugar and butter (the raisin and cinnamon masks everything), but I do want them to be a little harder. These are too chewy. Any tips?

California Rolls

I made california rolls at 1am. It took me literally 10 minutes, and what a mess! But it still tasted like california rolls!

It's so hard to cut...the seawood always seems to "cling" to the knife and the avocado oozes out all over the place!

Gorgonzola Pizza Recipe

Ingredients:
Pizza Dough (search for my recipe in my older posts)
Mozarella Cheese
Gorgonzola Cheese
Olive Oil
Garlic
Honey

Press the dough out very thinly-the thinner the better.

Spread olive oil and garlic.

Spread gorgonzola and then mozzarella cheese evenly.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees and bake for about 15 minutes.

Dip in honey and eat!

very easy and very delicious! This is not the usual pizza, so you're not going to be able to eat more than 2-3 pieces, and it will not fill you up. So think of it as an appetizer or a dessert pizza. And don't forget to dip it in honey!

Onion Rings

This is one of my favorite recipes, and the onion rings are very crunchy and fresh and best of all, delicious!

The picture doesn't make the onion ring *shine* like it should, but trust me, it tastes like heaven minus the cholesterol.

Ingredients:

-onions

1 cup   flour

1 T      baking soda

1 t       salt

1         egg

1 c      milk

1 c      breadcrumb

2 c      oil

1. mix the flour, baking soda and salt, and then add the egg and milk and whisk away....

2. In a seperate bowl, prepare the breadcrumb ( I usually grind my left over bread).

3. When the oil is ready, dip the onion in #1 and #2, and fry until golden brown.

4. Eat with ketchup!

Pickles

I made vegetable pickles! It's good with almost everything, but especially with sandwiches and italian food!'

veggies I used: cabbage, onion, cucumber, jalepeno, carrot

Bibimbap

We tried to make a Korean dish for dinner, and it was delicious!

my egg exploded while cooking... hate it when that happens...

mix the ingredients and TA DA! It was actually really tasty...better than it looks!

Teriyaki

We had a couple of teriyaki dishes recently and really enjoyed it, so I decided to make one at home. Well, this is actually the 2nd time, so it turned out much better, and I had made a critical mistake my 1st time, so that explains a lot. To make the teriyaki sauce, it is important that you simmer it for a couple of minutes before you use it.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup  soy sauce

1/2 cup          mirin

1 tablespoon sugar

1 teaspoon   honey

So you mix the ingredients above in a little saucepan and simmer it (which I did not do the first time), and then refrigerate it until you need to use it. Marinate the chicken or beef with this sauce and stir fry until its done! Very easy.

The veggies turned out to taste the same, but the chicken was juicier than the ones we had before. I think you're suppose to stir fry it until the edges burn...I'll give it a try next time.

Benihana's ginger dipping sauce recipe

Ingredients:

1/2 teaspoon     ginger
1/4 cup               onion
1/2 cup               soy sauce
1/4 cup               vinegar
2 teaspoons       lemon juice
dash of                pepper

mix the ingredients and grind in grinder.

Pizza Time!

Last night, we had one of our homemade pizza nights, and tried making the margarite pizza that we had at Auntie Pasto's, Hawaii. The crust could be a little thinner, but the topping couldn't get any better!

toppings: pizza sauce, mozarella cheese, sliced tomotoes, fresh basil

Anchovy Pizza for the anchovy lovers! This was really good too...I think the maragarite and the anchovy pizzas compliment each other really well...one is fishy and the other is fresh! yum!

toppings: pizza sauce, mozarella cheese, diced tomatoes, mushroom, onions, anchovy

For the homemade dough recipe, I posted one up a week ago, so refer to that!

Easy Basil Pesto Pasta Recipe

Ingredients:

1 cup basil pesto
2 cups macaroni or pasta of your choice
1/2 cup bacon bits

mix... soooo easy right?

for the basil pesto recipe:

1 cup fresh basil
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup olive oil
2 garlic cloves, minced
dash of ground black pepper

you can also use pine nuts, but I personally don't like the taste of it so I'll pass.

pulse the mixture in a food processor until it looks like pesto!

Homemade Pizza Dough Recipe

Ingredients:

serves 2

1 package yeast
1 teaspoon honey
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 cup warm water
3 cups flour

1. mix yeast, honey, salt and olive oil
2. pour 1 cup of flour and a little bit of warm water at a time, mixing the dough
3. knead the dough for about 5 minutes
4. grease a bowl with olive oil, place the dough, and cover with a wet paper towel. leave for 2 hours (room temperature)
5. knead the dough for 2 more mintues and cover it up for another 1 hour
6. place the dough on a pizza pan and roll the pizza out creating a crust
7. top the pizza and pop it in the oven 400 degrees for 20 minutes (I add extra cheese 5 minutes before its done)

yum!